Circuitous History
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Blue Jays and Angels...bottom of fifth...Angels 6-1...Trout knocked in three in like the second inning...and now, Jays just misplayed the ball and a bunch came in...no one out...so, so, I'm wanting to go on about the canopies...I posted about the canopy on the Narmer Mace, and the ones on Moche pottery painting of rituals, and I alluded to some I'd seen on Sumerian reliefs...and Egypt has the naos, or shrine, which looks related to their canopies, specifically the little awnings, canopies, on their boats...often shown sheltering a mummy....looking at King Tut's model boats, which have good examples, I diverted to Khufu's boat, the boat found in the boat pit of the Great Pyramid...it has like a long rectangular enclosure on it...and I puzzled over this, as it doesn't look like the canopies on the model boars, or in paintings...looking about I did find some badly eroded paintings of boats found out in the middle of the desert which look to be like Khufu's boat...they took a bit to find!...and the reason I persisted, is that the Khufu boat isn't painted!...like the Great Pyramid, it is without the usual motifs all over...for sometime why that is, and I haven't a clue where to look for that...Trout up...Angels' line up has buffed up!...several decent batting averages now...still too many batting under 200...anyway, I was wondering how to work up a post about the canopies here and there...and then I happened on the Aztecs reading about Nuttal, an early female archaeologist...she was really good at archaeology!...she did much exploring in Mexico, and she had a knack for finding lost manuscripts and such...one, a codex, bears her name, Nuttall....so, I had a look at that codex, and, there were all the Aztec canopies the Aztecs painted!...I knew of these...just forgot...generally, the canopies I speak of are part of ritual offering scenes...a notable sits atop a little platform with steps and a canopy overhead, and offerings, and presentations are made...for sometime I'll gather together the illustrations, put them side by side by side, but for now, I'll just snag an Aztec one, as it has motifs related to the crowstep...Jays not rolling over...wap another home run...Angels 6-3...
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https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Codex-Nuttall-15-depicts-temple-variously-identified-as-Quetzalcoatls-Temple-of_fig17_231942957
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Vlady junior up...Aztec canopies are the most elaborate!...but, there is the step fret, and the step motif/crowstep...and, right now, I'm scratching my head at what I'm seeing...the crowsteps have a small rectangle in their centers, like a door...I think I saw that in some of the Sasanian crowsteps I collected for previous post...I dunno...it's hard to stay on point...much of today looking at Nabateans, and then Armenians, and Mt. Ararat...sliding off into the tales of Noah's Ark!...'circuitous' the word came to my thoughts...need a word for my hopping about!...actually, it's kind of a neat way to learn history...take some small thing, zero in on it, and let it take you where it might go...anyway, here is link to wiki's take on Nuttall...
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Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall (6 September 1857, San Francisco – 12 April 1933, Coyoacán, Mexico) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist specialised in pre-Aztec Mexican cultures and pre-Columbian manuscripts. She discovered two forgotten manuscripts of this type in private collections, one of them being the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. She was one of the first to identify and recognise artefacts dating back to the pre-Aztec period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall
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neat take...bottom of sixth...Goodwin up...leave off to see if I can find that rectangle in the crowsteps...bbk...oh!...I found it, the rectangle...had the sense to note it in my bookmark...the crowsteps at Persepolis have them!...brb...
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-persian-empire-art-architecture.html
and, and it gets worse...some of the scenes in the Aztec codexes have the step motifs with the little triangle in them, which is pure Andean...go figure!...wait...here's something to note:
Aztec structure with almenas, as depicted in the Codex Nuttall (Nuttall 1902:f. 64). Drawing by the author.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Aztec-structure-with-almenas-as-depicted-in-the-Codex-Nuttall-Nuttall-1902f-64_fig9_315982505
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almenas?...
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CERAMIC ROOF ORNAMENTS (ALMENAS) FROM CIHUATAN, EL SALVADOR: CONTEXTS, DESCRIPTIONS AND INFERENCES FROM OTHER SITES
Marshall Becker
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hmmph...for sometime...to bottom of eighth...La Stella lead off hit...
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http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/mexcodex/vind05.htm
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and Trout walks...Goodwin up...due to get a hit...hard to see the triangles...will look about for better examples!...well. at the top are four platform with canopies, and in that row, on the far right. that one has the Andeans step fret triangle...I mean, it's really plain!...what in the world is this icon!...I know the step fret is one motif on Aztec shields, that's where I began with my step fret mania!...but here it is on one of the, what to call them?!...little houses...does each one of these represent a different clan, tribe, city, town?...each roof is a little different...and because the step fret triangle one is so exact, one can assume the others are exact...by exact, I mean it looks lifted exactly from the Andeans...and, there is another thing, oh, probably a lot of things!, but beneath the rope stretched out beneath the two figures lies an A sorta thing...that is on the famous gold grinning skull mask...for sometime that A sorta thing...I exampled it before as a unique looking example of an optical illusion...kinda like Celtic knots...top of ninth...one out...K...down to their final out in this ball game...2-2...base hit...runners at corners...pop up...Angels 6-3...put a halo over this one!
:)
DavidDavid
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